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Craig Hale

Russian cybercriminals are hijacking domain names — with thousands of sites already taken over

DNS.

Cybersecurity researchers from Infoblox and Eclypsium have discovered a critical vulnerability within the Domain Name System (DNS) that is currently being exploited by Russian cybercriminals to take over legitimate websites.

Dubbed the ‘Sitting Ducks’ attack, the method is being used by more than a dozen Russian-affiliated threat actors to hijack domain names.

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